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Article note: It pleases me that Rob's technical successes #1 and #2 are "Formal Specification" and "Competing Implementations" which are things whose absence I find concerning about a bunch of younger languages.
Article note: Oh man yes please. The current tooling for connecting the PL and PS of their FPGASoC parts (plumbing between PetaLinux and Vivado) are a shitfight.
Article note: Linking this among the many similar articles I skimmed, because it's the most up-front about copyright being an exchange of _temporary_ exclusive rights in return for ensuring things remain permanently available to society, which has been subverted by "lobbying" (read:bribery) for decades.
Just be careful not to let major elements from later designs slip in. | Disney
It’s finally happened: after nearly a century, Mickey Mouse has slipped off Disney’s copyright leash. The first versions of the iconic cartoon character, seen in Steamboat Willie and a silent version of Plane Crazy, enter the public domain in the US on January 1st, 2024. (An early version of Minnie Mouse is also fortunately included.) There’s still a complicated mess of protections around Mickey, but today is a moment public domain advocates have awaited for decades — and there are plenty of other exciting new entries as well.
Duke Law School’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, as usual, has a roundup of prominent works whose copyright protections lapse in the US today. The list includes sound recordings from 1923 and works in...
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
